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Lawsuit Claims College Ordered Student to Alter Religious Views on Homosexuality, Or Be Dismissed
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Yep not qualified, personal bias has no place in clinical situations.
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Take someone who is, say, a graduate student in biology. They write their dissertation or thesis on some interesting gene sequence or another and utterly fail to mention the adaptive significance for the trait. The reviewing committee, quite reasonably, asks the prospect why they have managed to write N pages and completely avoid the subject of selection, fitness, or adaptation. They then reply along the general lines that Darwinian theory isn't true. So the review committee rejects the paper. The person then goes off butt-hurt (to use my wife's phrasing) to the Thomas Moore center (a conservative legal advocacy outfit) claiming that they are being discriminated against because they are a Christian. The problem, of course, is not their religion but that they are not meeting the minimal standards of competency in the field. This is what I think is happening here. As a prospective counselor her ethical obligation is to *not* go in there and start preaching about what her god thinks about homosexuality or what the Bible has to say on the subject. If she has stated that she will not abide by that ethical standard then it is absolutely appropriate for her to undergo censure or something like it. The other reason this will become increasingly common is two-fold; it reinforces the pre-existing narrative that fundamentalist Christians already have running which is that the they are the victims and 'The World' is the oppressor. So, in the gay rights battle they believe--quite honestly--that they are the victims and that any laws protecting us from discrimination are, in fact, laws against Christianity (yes, they really, honestly, genuinely, believe this). The second reason is that Americans try to be fair-minded to a fault. We *want* to be on the side of the underdogs and we love the story of the plucky person going up against the big bully. I'm already aware of a physicist who, in Ben Stein's movie "Expelled", claimed he was fired from the astronomy department at a university in Iowa because he's a Christian. However, that's not the case. The problem was that he had the combination of very bad student evals and he hadn't published any work in 10 years. He wasn't tenured and they determined that he just wasn't cutting the mustard. Cheers Aj
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I remember the news article about that Physicist and I seem to remember that there were seveal more lawsuits on behalf of nurses who had been fired for refusing to perform abortions and Pharmacists who had refused to fill birth control prescriptions.
Im beginning to think more and more that the "3-headed beasts falling from the sky" and "Christian Oppression" narrative will be much more about crazy Fundi's with guns trying to "protect their religion" by starting riots and chaos than it will be about some dude with a beard coming down and swooping up his "chosen people".
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which of course just makes me want to pick up their fish and slap them with it.
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So do they agree with NOM who believes and promotes that the best way to end gay marriage is to hang people?
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Here's another similar case:
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So it doesn't look favorable for Ms. Keeton.
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